Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3446 points

3588 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4699 points

5548 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3046 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

2965 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2950 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

2883 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.26 points

137.16 points

148% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3081 points

6064 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

640 points

903 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2889 points

5310 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

595 points

1071 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

Identical

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

490th of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1650 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X is faster than the Xeon E5-1650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1650. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.